the vice president is speaking. and the bill, as amended, is passed. [applause] all right everybody, after 24 hours or so of work on this bill vice president harris being the tie breaking vote on the senate floor today. it seems as if we have confirmation from the vice president herself the inflation reduction pass act has passed today. with all democrats on the floor voting in favor of the passage of this bill along with the vice president and all republicans voting against the passage of this legislation. of course, now, this will go to the house on friday. let s listen in once again to senator schumer. i have to compose myself a little here. every senator knows an undeniable truths. we can never do what we do
million times. so now, at the same time, as you were talking to senator coons, he said help was on the way. democrats also the prescription data language is not gonna be available tomorrow. you have to implement a lot of the stuff of the bill. there has to be some patients, even though this bill just passed that it will be sided to law sometime next week, the provisions take a while to actually implement from the government. and so we saw that with the obama care website, you have to be careful on implementation to make sure it s implemented the right way. that s a good point, liz. because i think it is one thing when you talk about the passage of this legislation and what it will do, it s another thing to see the real world impacts of how it actually gets turned into votes. it s the real world impacts the, way in which the legislation is communicated to the american people. democrats, at, times have fallen short when it comes to communication to the american people on their winds.
whole bill, including amendments by senator bernie sanders. they knew this could be a problem. they did not expect sinema to back it, and she did. once you have one person backing it on the democrats side, you had a few other vulnerable s. so yeah, this was a setback and a win for republicans. but this is a big picture big win for democrats. it s a long time coming, third not getting three and a half trillion dollars that they want, but they re getting a significant bill. certainly a major. one the next conversation we re gonna have is how they re gonna take this to the streets to sell it to the american people and to really turn this legislation all the legislative wins they ve had over the last few months into votes. julie, you talked about the energy on the hill. obviously even covering it overnight, through all of this. we re folks worried for that moment, when it seemed as if there may be of course they were worried. i was hearing from democratic
conversation, julie sorkin, who s on capitol hill along with bob cusack. julie, talk to me. i know you re standing outside in the halls there. senators are beginning to trickle out. hoping work can get one of them on camera talk more about this momentous time for democratic senators in the passage of this legislation. whatever you ve been hearing in seeing so far? yes, senators are trickling out of the chamber, leaving the hill. some with tears in their eyes. democratic senator, tina smith, had tears in her eyes. she is so thrilled that this finally got across the finish line. majority leader schumer saying that this bill is going to change america for decades. they are obviously touting the climate tax and health pieces of this bill, at what that will mean for millions of americans across the country. especially as they have tried to get this passed for a better part of the last year. ave trie to getfinally coming to this mot where they are past the finish line, they got this done.
accurately communicate that legislation. there are winds here. it could take some time for these changes to be implemented. i do agree with bob on this, we re not gonna feel the impacts of this felt tomorrow. in fact, it might take a while to feel the impacts of this bill. that doesn t mean we need to wait in terms of when we start communicating about it. while the impacts might take a while, the intent of each party was made very, very clear with the vote today. the intent of the democratic party, the focus of the democratic party, is providing relief to families we know are feeling pain from inflation. whereas the intent of the republican party, is to ignore. it again, as i said earlier these are not radical proposals that were in this bill today. these are provisions that were supported by republicans,